How to Register

Joining SAIEES is easy! After examining the membership requirements below, you will
need to download an application form, complete it carefully and thoroughly, and
submit it by fax, post or email to the Secretariat. You will also need to identify
two members of SAIEES, who are in good standing with the Institute, and who agree to act
as referees for your application. They in turn will need to download a confidential
'Referees Form', complete it on your behalf and forward it to us.

Application for Professional or Academic Membership

According to Clause 3.1 of the SAIEES
Constitution, a Professional Ecologist/Environmental Scientist is someone who is
considered by the Board to be primarily an ecologist or environmental scientist, who makes
his/her livelihood by exercising his/her scientific expertise and meets the following
requirements:

(a) Academic

at least an honours degree (or equivalent) in a scientific discipline which encompasses
the study of ecology and/or the natural environment, AND

a further post-graduate level degree in ecology and/or environmental science, which has
been examined and passed.

(b) Professional

a minimum of three
years' professional experience as a practicing ecologist or environmental scientist,
attested to by a professional member of the Institute in good standing.

Eligibility for professional membership is assessed by a sub-committee of the Board, and
is done against the criteria laid out above. In special cases, however, the Board may waive
the academic requirement of a higher degree. In such cases experience will be critically
assessed. Applicants must justify in their submissions the extent of their
ecological/environmental science experience.